DDT
A skeptical look at Earth Day
IPN Opinion article
Earth Day is now 40 but the environmental movement is still fighting old and pointless battles, such as the one against life-enhancing pesticides. On the other hand, it is not fighting battles that really do need fighting to allow the poor to improve their lot all over the world.
Killing the malaria killer
IPN Opinion article
On World Malaria Day, activists and governments discuss many weapons against the disease except one of the most effective: DDT
A skeptical look at Earth Day
IPN Opinion article
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the environmental movement should rethink its priorities and the policies it promotes
Which Policy to Address Climate Change?
IPN Opinion article
Carbon control doesn't look like a very smart solution to climate change.
UN Disarms Weapon of Malarial Destruction
IPN Opinion article
DDT is much-demonised by superstitious Westerners but it has saved millions of lives all over the world (including the USA and Europe) and continues to save lives in Africa. But not for much longer: the WHO's reluctant acceptance of DDT in 2006 has been reversed in favour of a range of human experiments using poor people as guinea-pigs.
EU's false insecticide fears pose real threat to Africa
IPN Opinion article
The European Parliament has recently agreed to ban scores of pesticides inside Europe on scientifically dubious and highly precautionary grounds. What EU policymakers failed to realise is how this legislation will harm the fight against diseases like malaria abroad.
